I'm still watching this show but the fumes seem to be getting stronger. I'm one who is hoping it gets back on track soon.

I blame Katrina.

In season one she was trapped in purgatory. Since she got out it means more chemistry-free scenes with Ichabod when it should be more scenes with Abbie. Plus with Katrina in ghost prison and the angry horseman riding around it meant Crane had a motivation. Now the show is just kind of casually wandering to whatever apocalyptic plan Henry cooks up each week and the horseman doesn't really have any riding to do.

I still enjoy watching whatever Ichabod gets up to though, so all his scenes are fun for me.

It's been awhile since we've seen ol' Headless riding around wreaking havoc and creating carnage. Lately when we see him, it's Abraham, moping around the cottage. Really wish they'd figure out a way to have Clancy Brown return. Perhaps as a ghost helping Abbie. I dunno. Something. All in all I'm still in and enjoy the show.

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So am I the only one frustrated by the apparent lack of progress Crane and Miss Mills are having in the larger plot arc against Henry?

No. I said I wasn't coming back to the bashfest, but I'm growing so impatient with season 2 that now I want to bash the lack of progress. Also, why does Blondie get included in every episode when characters in the main cast only appear every 2 or 3 episodes? The succubus should have killed him to prove the show still has enough spine to whack a glorified extra, but nope! He survived, while Jenny and Frank were, as usual, nowhere to be found.

I'd be all for Katrina becoming a Horse(wo)man if it meant that the season 1 character dynamic might return. I was worried that getting more episodes in season 2 would be a bad thing, and I was right. The sense of urgency for averting the impending apocalypse over the course of a season is totally gone now that Crane and Mills are thwarting Moloch's plans left and right. We're almost down to an apocalypse-of-the-week formula to fill time now, and it's a shame.

No. I said I wasn't coming back to the bashfest, but I'm growing so impatient with season 2 that now I want to bash the lack of progress. Also, why does Blondie get included in every episode when characters in the main cast only appear every 2 or 3 episodes? The succubus should have killed him to prove the show still has enough spine to whack a glorified extra, but nope! He survived, while Jenny and Frank were, as usual, nowhere to be found.

I'd be all for Katrina becoming a Horse(wo)man if it meant that the season 1 character dynamic might return. I was worried that getting more episodes in season 2 would be a bad thing, and I was right. The sense of urgency for averting the impending apocalypse over the course of a season is totally gone now that Crane and Mills are thwarting Moloch's plans left and right. We're almost down to an apocalypse-of-the-week formula to fill time now, and it's a shame.

Katrina might be more interesting that way, I thought we were making progress with her but then she went right back to them again.

As for Blondie or whatever his name is, I really see no point in him other than forcing romance when it's not needed at all.

Well that's typical. The one thing I pointed out last week that I always enjoy was sidelined this week.

Instead we got Blondie being a pointless stand in whose job it was to hold a flashlight and be a token male presence in a scene. Really, what was his contribution after the soup was delivered?

The story was okay and we got some closure on the twins and their mom (and Orlando got something to do), but I thought the actress who played the mother was really overacting and the ending was only an "I'll always be with you as long as you remember me." away from a complete mawkish sentimentality apocalypse.

And hey look, we have a magic star Hell child. You just don't see rapidly growing magic children on television.

Well that's typical. The one thing I pointed out last week that I always enjoy was sidelined this week.

Instead we got Blondie being a pointless stand in whose job it was to hold a flashlight and be a token male presence in a scene. Really, what was his contribution after the soup was delivered?

The story was okay and we got some closure on the twins and their mom (and Orlando got something to do), but I thought the actress who played the mother was really overacting and the ending was only an "I'll always be with you as long as you remember me." away from a complete mawkish sentimentality apocalypse.

And hey look, we have a magic star Hell child. You just don't see rapidly growing magic children on television.

Yeah, I still don't get what the point of the blonde guy except just being a LI.

And then not to air the show from the point you interrupted? What's up with that? No respect for your viewers? Part one of a two part winter ending was cut in half!!!!!!!!!!

I watched it using the Fox Now app. They did air it from the break - at least our local did. The only thing that got clipped was Crane saying the word "torches" at the end of "You can never have too many ..."

The ending was severely cut however. The broadcast lost about three or four minutes in the overrun.

Didn't care much for this episode anyway. Apart from the moment when the ending had the immense buildup and they dipped the torch in the oil to a big fizzle which made me laugh, the rest seemed kind of randomly thrown together. Gorgons was a new level of crazy and I don't think it worked. All together it was just another of those episodes in which imminent peril is averted thanks to a new artifact that only came up in conversation that week.

I purchased it from Amazon since the DC broadcast between 9PM and 10PM had 40 minute sof news coverage. They may have shown the show in it's entirety. I don't know though since my recording ends at 10PM on my TiVos. I had to purchase State of Affairs too for the same reason. No idea why they need to cut in to the shows. WHen I want to see a news broadcast I will watch the news channel.

Hulu also has it if you have a computer hooked up to the TV (or Hulu+).

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My time was limited last night so I didn't want to go the Hulu+ route and have the five to seven minutes worth of commercials. Besides it gave me a good reason to use the new Amazon Prime streaming app on the TiVos.

Had to resort to Hulu + for the last few minutes. Surprised by one thing, thought for sure Ichabod would use the Gorgon's head to turn Abraham to stone ala Perseus and Medusa. Other than that so-so episode setting up what? They can't defeat Moloch this season can they?? I really liked this show last season and it still has elements left. Crane and Mills are a great pair that I'm glad hasn't been shown to have any romantic chemistry, just equals working together becoming friends. Leave blondie out like they did this ep. Let the sisters work their problems out without adding romantic tensions in to the mix. Unfortunate though that there doesn't seem to be any chemistry between Crane and his erstwhile wife Katrina.

That answers my question... I wondered if FOX carried the news last week too... I had to watch CBS and ABC shows online due to being cutoff for the overrun by the news coverage. I don't mind it when I know what happened and have a chance to catch up otherwise.

I'll need to check on Gotham as well, depending on when they broke in I don't know if that recording was affected or just Sleepy Hollow.

Un-shocking twist which was obviously coming as soon as Henry started getting mean comments from Moloch. It does make you wonder what they can do for the rest of the season. Are we going to have another round of Moloch trying to come up with yet another plan or is Irving going to get something to do and come back as a demonic warrior. Maybe Henry will just rip up the soul contract because he's nice now. If Irving doesn't come back at least Orlando Jones won't have to waste time learning his two lines every episode just to remind the audience he used to be in season one.

I was hoping The Kindred would make an appearance given that it was supposed to be the big battle, but I guess the show forgot about him. Pity they didn't forget about Hawley. They gave him another room to stand in, quietly doing nothing.

Everything about the sword I thought was stupid. The sword prop was terrible - it looked like a big plastic toy in every scene with it's chunky crossguard and apparently no weight - and I know it was supposed to be magical but how come it gave Irving super sword fighting skills? How come the Horseman of War (armor) was so lame in battle? Isn't that supposed to be his forte? Old Henry was superpowering all over the place in his knit cardigan sweater. He should have just gone into battle himself.

That was underwhelming, especially from the villain side: You have Abraham who's been sidelined as a love sick fool pining after Katrina, then you have Henry who just a petulant child with daddy issues, and then you have Moloch who got taken out faster than the monsters of the week episodes. that and you have the main characters do nothing but fail and get tied up.

I'm kind of hoping that Henry decided to kill Moloch to become the Big Bad himself, rather than deciding to join the good guys. I also thought it was hilarious that Moloch apparently was able to learn English by being born on Earth... or something. I guess the subtitle guy didn't feel like timing all of those lines in Demontongue.

..... Whatever happens next, it will each week seem like an unavoidable end to the world or one of our heroes,, until, of course, someone, about 3/4ths thru the episode, inexplicably mentions a passage in "a book" , which will then be found, read, & allow them to entirely eliminate the threat of the week ...